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AP Lit Terms Smith 5

Literary vocabulary for AP

QuestionAnswer
Apologia a work written as justification of ones motives or convictions
Asyndeton a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions
Bathos insincere or overly sentimental quality or writing to evoke pity
Diatribe a bitterly abusive harangue or denunciation
Epiphany a moment of sudden insight; an awakening
Epitaph an inscription on a tombstone
Epithet a term used to characterize a person or thing—Richard the Lion-Hearted, The Big Apple
Homage writing that reveres or honors someone or something
Homily a sermon
Hubris excessive pride or arrogance
Invective a highly intensive verbal attack
Lampoon severely satirical writing that criticizes and attacks someone
Malapropism mistaken substitution of one word for another—The doctor wrote a subscription
Motif a theme, element, or dramatic situation that recurs in a work
Parody writing that imitates or ridicules in a nonsensical fashion another piece of serious writing
Phillipic a strong verbal denunciation
Polysyndeton the use of conjunctions more than is necessary or natural
Flat character a character who does not change
Round character a character who develops with complexity and who changes
Solecism a violation of grammatical ruies
Syllepsis a construction in which: one word is used in two different senses —"After he threw the bail, he threw a fit."
Synesthesia imagery that combines two different senses—a loud color or a sweet sound
Treatise a formal essay
Vernacular everyday speech of a particular country or region
Zeugma the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way—On his fishing trip he caught three trout and a cold.
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